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At the Israeli Society for Vision and Eye Research (ISVER) conference, the MedInsight Research Institute and Center for Drug Repurposing at Ariel University presented the latest findings on positive user-reported outcomes of the repurposed drug dipyridamole in treating pterygium and related dry-eye symptoms.

Pterygium, or Surfer’s Eye, is a benign growth that affects 10% of the […]

If you get bitten by a venomous snake, there are medicines that can help, but these antivenins are specific to each species of snake. Researchers in the US are announcing that they’re in the early stages of developing a snakebite antidote that can fight 28 common venoms and be administered out in the field without the […]

Mohamed Seleem, an associate professor of microbiology in Purdue’s College of Veterinary Medicine, used novel drug repurposing methods to discover two drugs that could have significant promise as a potent antimicrobial agent for treatment of both superficial and invasive infections. Through his research and studies he has identified auranofin and ebselen as potent antimicrobial agents […]

A group of drugs already in everyday use to treat psychosis or depression may also be used to defeat deadly and emerging viruses, according to new research led by the University of Leeds. The virus the research focused on was the Bunyavirus family, which includes lethal human pathogens such as Hantaviruses and Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus.

Preliminary findings from a small-scale study done by Georgetown University Medical Center researches indicate that a medication approved to treat leukemia may halt or reverse the progression of Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia.

Dr. Moussa states that their work “has been focused on repositioning this already-FDA-approved drug, that we now have a good safety profile to […]

Randy Forbes introduces us to Dr. Emil Freireich, who in 1995 took on the challenge of Children’s Leukemia. Dr. Freireich wondered if combining several chemotherapy treatments simultaneously would increase the success rate of remissions.

Over the course of several trials, Dr. Freireich, along with a colleague, discovered a multi-drug treatment for leukemia. Their discovery led to cures that […]

Small cell lung cancer is one of the most aggressive types of cancer, and in a recent study statins, a class of drugs primarily used to lower cholesterol in patients at risk for heart disease, appeared to provide an increase in overall survival for those cancer patients who received them.